Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-72104-3 (ISBN)
Healing roles and rituals involving alcohol are a major source of power and identity for women and men in Highland Chiapas, Mexico, where abstention from alcohol can bring a loss of meaningful roles and of a sense of community. Yet, as in other parts of the world, alcohol use sometimes leads to abuse, whose effects must then be combated by individuals and the community.
In this pioneering ethnography, Christine Eber looks at women and drinking in the community of San Pedro ChenalhÓ to address the issues of women’s identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power. She explores various personal and social strategies women use to avoid problem drinking, including conversion to Protestant religions, membership in cooperatives or Catholic Action, and modification of ritual forms with substitute beverages.
The book’s women-centered perspective reveals important data on women and drinking not reported in earlier ethnographies of Highland Chiapas communities. Eber’s reflexive approach, blending the women’s stories, analyses, songs, and prayers with her own and other ethnographers’ views, shows how Western, individualistic approaches to the problems of alcohol abuse are inadequate for understanding women’s experiences with problem and ritual drinking in a non-Western culture.
In a new epilogue, Christine Eber describes how events of the last decade, including the Zapatista uprising, have strengthened women's resolve to gain greater control over their lives by controlling the effects of alcohol in the community.
Christine Eber is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at New Mexico State University.
List of Major Characters
Acknowledgments
On Translations and Aids to Reading This Book
Preface
1. Frameworks and Methods
2. The Time of Suffering: Pedranos, Ladinos, and Rum
3. I Have Come: Crazy February
4. Making One's Soul Arrive: Child Rearing and Household Relations
5. "Before God's flowery face": The Feast of St. Peter
6. "Now I am going like a branch and its leaves": Drinkers and Their Families
7. Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow: A Processual Framework on Drinking
8. "Beneath God's flowery hands and feet": Shamans' Cures for Problem Drinking
9. "It's time to change": Mestizoization and Drinking
10. "For ye are bought with a price": Traditions, Religions, and Drinking
11. "Today we say: Enough!": New Voices, New Collective Action
12. Conclusion
List of the Martyrs at Acteal
Epilogue
Appendices
A. Traditional Pedrano Gods
B. Non-Traditional Healing in ChenalhÓ
C. Brief History of Presbyterianism in ChenalhÓ
D. Revelation 21:3-8
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
Index of Major Characters
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-292-72104-8 / 0292721048 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-72104-3 / 9780292721043 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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